CARDS: Topps AAF 2019, Topps AAF 2019 Certified, Topps XFL 2020, Topps XFL 2020 Future Stars, TNT XFL 2023, Upper Deck UFL 2024,
Topps AAF 2019 Future Stars, Upper Deck UFL 2025 Dual Signatures
ACQUIRED: Personal Break 2019
IP 2024, San Antonio Brahmas v Arlington Renegades
TTM 2026, C/o Home
eBay, 2026
ePack, 2025
SENT: 1/2/26 RECEIVED: 2/11/26 (41 days)
FAILURE: TTM 2019, C/o The Eagles
TTM 2023, C/o The Rams
CAREER SNAPSHOT:
- Luis Perez’s storied career began with Southwestern College in Chula Vista, when he walked onto the football team in 2013.
- He worked his way up the school depth chart to starting QB and in 2014 led the Jaguars to a conference title.
- Luis received the attention of a lot of Division I and II colleges, eventually landing at Texas A&M Commerce in 2015.
- After a fantastic 2016 run with Commerce, he capped it off with an even better 2017, passing for 46 TDs, and over 5,000 yards in ’17.
- After going undrafted, he’s sign with the Los Angeles Rams in 2018, but was ultimately cut in September of that year.
- Luis’ career took a storied turn from there, as he’d be a territorial allocation of the San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football for play in 2019.
- The AAF sensing an imbalance of QB talent centered on only a few teams, decided to drop all the QBs into a pick or pass draft pool.
- He’d be selected in the first round of the Pick or Pass draft by the Birmingham Iron.
- In his first game for the Iron, Perez threw for 252 yards on 19 of 33 passing, beating the Memphis Express.
- On the season the Iron finished 5-3 and would be one of only two teams to qualify for the AAF playoffs before the league was halted.
- Luis finished with 5 TDs to 6 INT with 1,460 passing yards.
- He spent a little over a month total with the Eagles and Lions in the NFL off-season that year.
- After that it was on to the XFL 20, as Luis was assigned to the Los Angeles Wildcats.
- Comfortable with their QB situation, the Wildcats traded Luis to the New York Guardians.
- Luis eventually worked his way up to the starting QB role starting 2 contests.
- He completed 38 of 61 passes for 418 yards and 3 TDs before the league collapsed due to COVID.
- Luis kept the dream alive and went to the Spring League in 2021, playing for the Jousters.
- The King of Spring completed 56 of 94 passes for 655 yards and 7 TDs.
- After that the New USFL came calling in 2022, Luis took his bag to the the New Jersey Generals.
- He’d post up 1,200 yards and 9 TDs, on 124 of 173 passes- only throwing 1 interception.
- 2023, led Luis to the XFL where he was selected by the Vegas Vipers.
- A little over midway through the season, he’d be traded to the Arlington Renegades.
- He’d respond by leading the Renegades to a win in the XFL 23 Championship over the DC Defenders.
- Perez had 1,630 yards and 9 TDs on the season.
- Although he had an MVP season in 2024 with 2,310 yards and 18 TDs, the Renegades failed to match their ’23 expectations.
- He was signed by the Chargers after the season, receiving high praise from HC Jim Harbaugh, but was waived at the end of the preseason.
- In 2025, Luis posted 224 of 313 passing for 2,294 yards and 9 TDs.
ACCOLADES:
- Harlon Hill Trophy 2017
- XFL Championship MVP 2023
NOTES:
I had failed on Luis two times previously back in 2019 and 2023. Then I wasn’t able to corral him in 2023 when the Renegades were in town and I was on the field. I was worried I was going to run out of cards at this rate. Luckily I found my spot on the visitor’s side of the end zone and made it happen. I doubled down and made a custom as well, and I just happened to get lucky enough.
He was the last player on the field and the staff at the Alamodome had certainly seemed to change their tune, patiently waiting for me to get my autographs from him.
I met another fan from HTown who really wanted Luis. It turned out he was a fan from Reddit I identified who got record setting Jake Bates at the Michigan game I elected not to go to. I coached him on the best way to get Luis, and I think I slipped him an extra card I had.
Luis came over and kindly signed everything. He smiled graciously when we called him ‘The King of Spring’, and then I gave him my extras. A big win for me after all those failures with him TTM at training camps, if he returns for another season, I’ve got to get my hands on the Topps AAF 2019 Future Stars card for him to sign.
I was able to get his green parallel autograph out of Upper Deck UFL 2024. Since it is an ecard set, I had to complete a ridiculous achievement to get it, on top of the saddled expensive cost of the set. This time around was the easiest. A friend of mine Zombie Phoenix really wanted a Michigan Panthers glossy card off of me. I threw out that I’d be interested in trading only for all his gold cards since he didn’t have anything I really needed. He accepted. Then JMilligan, my frequent trading partner, stepped up and offered me a sweet deal for all his gold in exchange for trading duo autographs. I gleefully accepted realizing that just put me 3-4 out from completing the set again. This essentially transpired all over the flash of a day, and then after pulling off one or two more trades, I pulled a Luis Perez parallel autograph.
A bit later I pulled out a trade to complete out the white portion of the set. Ignorantly I’d been ordering these since they were physical cards- but then I realized as I was piling up exclusives and parallels, I’d put the set together that way and I was wasting my capital to earn a printing plate. Well I finally managed to do it, and it happened to be later in the morning after I’d pulled the Luis Perez green parallel, that I pulled this sweet printing plate of Luis Perez- my first ever.
And then finally at long last a special shout out to my good friend ’50 Games Jake’ who helped me get this last (lol) autograph of Luis I needed on his Topps AAF 2019 Future Stars card. With his help I sent this out to Luis’ home address and he responded back from the UFL facility (based on the postmark. Time is a flat circle, as this autograph returned to me on the 7th anniversary of the start of the AAF’s 8 game season.
